Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 79 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -25 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,301 1,597 3,504
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 3.66% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.91% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,037 2,780
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £118,500 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 1,190 £77,500 +3.33% 596
London +7 657 £87,500 - 258
Work from Home -28 575 £72,500 +0.71% 428
UK excluding London -105 539 £67,500 -1.50% 428
North of England -40 245 £67,500 -3.57% 129
North West -36 118 £67,500 - 65
South East -113 101 £75,000 +11.11% 129
Yorkshire -41 99 £70,000 -2.77% 35
South West -59 63 £65,000 -7.48% 45
Midlands -65 58 £67,500 +3.85% 61
East of England -11 38 £65,000 +13.04% 36
West Midlands -28 34 £65,000 -7.14% 33
North East -12 28 £61,350 +16.86% 30
Scotland -81 26 £62,500 -16.67% 20
East Midlands -59 23 £67,500 +3.85% 28
Wales -14 7 £55,200 +17.02% 14
Northern Ireland -30 5 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.54%) Apache
2 20 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 19 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.46%) Confluence
4 14 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 13 (1.00%) JBoss
6 11 (0.85%) WebSphere
7 10 (0.77%) CMS
8 8 (0.61%) IIS
9 6 (0.46%) Appian
10 5 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.31%) Camunda
11 4 (0.31%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.23%) Liferay
12 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.077%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (1.15%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.85%) Maya
2 11 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.69%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.077%) Quorum
7 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.077%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 719 (55.27%) AWS
2 585 (44.97%) Azure
3 289 (22.21%) GCP
4 230 (17.68%) Serverless
5 170 (13.07%) SaaS
6 118 (9.07%) GitHub
7 107 (8.22%) Amazon S3
8 100 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 100 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
9 96 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
10 68 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
12 60 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (3.54%) OpenShift
16 42 (3.23%) PaaS
17 37 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
18 32 (2.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.00%) Broadband
2 12 (0.92%) HTTP
3 9 (0.69%) AMQP
4 7 (0.54%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.46%) Firewall
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) MQTT
7 4 (0.31%) DHCP
7 4 (0.31%) DNS
7 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.31%) SNMP
7 4 (0.31%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
9 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.077%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.14%) NoSQL
2 176 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (9.92%) MongoDB
4 122 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 74 (5.69%) MySQL
6 65 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.92%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (3.00%) Redis
10 28 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (2.15%) Big Data
10 28 (2.15%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.77%) RDBMS
12 17 (1.31%) Power BI
13 13 (1.00%) DB2
13 13 (1.00%) Pinecone
14 12 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.92%) Tableau
15 10 (0.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 170 (13.07%) Git
2 123 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 82 (6.30%) GitLab
4 53 (4.07%) TeamCity
5 46 (3.54%) JIRA
6 39 (3.00%) Cucumber
6 39 (3.00%) JUnit
7 33 (2.54%) Selenium
8 30 (2.31%) Cypress.io
9 27 (2.08%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.69%) Mockito
11 20 (1.54%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.46%) Maven
13 13 (1.00%) JMeter
14 11 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.85%) Postman
14 11 (0.85%) Vite
15 8 (0.61%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.61%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 390 (29.98%) Finance
2 376 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 164 (12.61%) Banking
4 106 (8.15%) Law
5 99 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (6.53%) Public Sector
7 74 (5.69%) Retail
8 66 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 57 (4.38%) Financial Institution
10 52 (4.00%) Telecoms
11 44 (3.38%) Back Office
12 25 (1.92%) Games
13 24 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.69%) Billing
14 22 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.31%) Advertising
15 17 (1.31%) Legal
16 15 (1.15%) Marketing
17 12 (0.92%) Front Office
18 11 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 438 (33.67%) Developer
2 342 (26.29%) Senior
3 256 (19.68%) Software Engineer
4 211 (16.22%) Architect
5 165 (12.68%) Lead
6 119 (9.15%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 110 (8.46%) Java Developer
9 101 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
10 90 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 84 (6.46%) Java Engineer
12 77 (5.92%) .NET Developer
13 49 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 49 (3.77%) Software Developer
14 48 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
15 47 (3.61%) Lead Developer
16 40 (3.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 40 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
17 39 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
18 37 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (22.83%) .NET
2 293 (22.52%) React
3 262 (20.14%) RESTful
4 228 (17.52%) Spring
5 209 (16.06%) REST
6 201 (15.45%) Spring Boot
7 187 (14.37%) Node.js
8 181 (13.91%) Kafka
9 113 (8.69%) AngularJS
10 100 (7.69%) .NET Core
11 81 (6.23%) gRPC
12 75 (5.76%) HTML
13 69 (5.30%) .NET Framework
14 63 (4.84%) CSS
15 61 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
16 57 (4.38%) ASP.NET
16 57 (4.38%) Middleware
17 52 (4.00%) Django
18 49 (3.77%) Hibernate
19 45 (3.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 373 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 220 (16.91%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (8.46%) Product Ownership
4 109 (8.38%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 36 (2.77%) Over-the-Top Content
8 36 (2.77%) Video\Live Streaming
9 34 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.46%) Algorithms
11 27 (2.08%) Virtual Team
12 26 (2.00%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.92%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
15 20 (1.54%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.31%) IoT
16 17 (1.31%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.15%) Public Cloud
18 13 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.30%) Linux
2 21 (1.61%) Windows
3 18 (1.38%) Android
4 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.46%) Unix
6 5 (0.38%) CentOS
6 5 (0.38%) Debian
6 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.15%) VMS
8 1 (0.077%) Fedora
8 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (48.96%) CI/CD
2 553 (42.51%) Agile
3 516 (39.66%) DevOps
4 494 (37.97%) Software Engineering
5 369 (28.36%) Containerisation
6 304 (23.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 286 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
8 274 (21.06%) Mentoring
9 254 (19.52%) Event-Driven
10 239 (18.37%) Test Automation
11 236 (18.14%) AI
12 235 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 204 (15.68%) Computer Science
14 174 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 162 (12.45%) Scrum
16 156 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
17 151 (11.61%) Clean Code
17 151 (11.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 148 (11.38%) TDD
19 145 (11.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 443 (34.05%) Java
2 339 (26.06%) Python
3 275 (21.14%) SQL
4 258 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 253 (19.45%) C#
6 216 (16.60%) TypeScript
7 111 (8.53%) Go
8 42 (3.23%) Scala
9 40 (3.07%) PHP
10 31 (2.38%) Bash
11 29 (2.23%) C++
12 26 (2.00%) C
13 24 (1.84%) Ruby
14 22 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.69%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 16 (1.23%) Rust
17 13 (1.00%) PowerShell
18 7 (0.54%) Bicep
19 6 (0.46%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 210 (16.14%) Degree
2 140 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 107 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 73 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 51 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 37 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.08%) CISSP
13 12 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.77%) CISM
14 10 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.77%) PMP
15 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.07%) QA
2 29 (2.23%) GDPR
2 29 (2.23%) PCI DSS
3 26 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.92%) NIST
5 12 (0.92%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.77%) NCSC
7 8 (0.61%) EMIR
8 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 5 (0.38%) IFRS
9 5 (0.38%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.23%) SEPA
10 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 404 (31.05%) Docker
2 15 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.38%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 403 (30.98%) Kubernetes
2 223 (17.14%) Terraform
3 84 (6.46%) Grafana
4 65 (5.00%) Ansible
5 35 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.92%) Kibana
7 14 (1.08%) Argo
8 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.077%) MIIS
14 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 140 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 51 (3.92%) Oracle
3 50 (3.84%) Google
4 36 (2.77%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 18 (1.38%) SAP
6 17 (1.31%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.08%) Software AG
8 14 (1.08%) Splunk
9 13 (1.00%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.77%) Cisco
12 10 (0.77%) Databricks
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
13 9 (0.69%) Guidewire